Disclaimer: I do not own the show or game Defiance, and this may not follow true to any already existing back stories
FYI: this story may exist on my other account but I plan to continue it from here
The Beginning
Chapter One
Living in the red sands we were no stranger to heat. Dangerous and beautiful, like my wife Irana, the sand allowed our people to thrive. Irathients faced the bigotry and hatred of other races, we were called dirty and vermin, simply because we were not weak enough to succumb to every sickness. The other Votans believed us to be bellow them but their unfounded hate showed them to be weaker in spirit as well as body. But we were free from such prejudice in the red sands because other Votans were unable to handle the conditions on the little red planet closest to our sun.
The sand monsters, called rochan, were red as the sand, red as our hair. So they went unnoticed until it was too late. Too often a man had not sensed the presence of a rochan until they were half way down its gullet. The weather was our enemy as well due to our world being the closest habitable world to the sun. The heat would pound into us from above and its light would bounce off of the sands which were smooth like glass. The nausea and confusion from the two was called sun sickness and it was everyones greatest annoyance. But we adapted and we lived well thanks to trading sand jewels with the Sensoths and Liberatas. Perhaps we could have had a finer life if we traded with the Castithans. That is if we could find a Castithan willing to trade with us, even for something so desirable to them as a sand jewel. But we were a proud people, we still are, and would not stand to trade with the shtako who fought so dirty in our last war.
But it is to those shtako and their planet that we now run. Perhaps we will still die there. Perhaps the sun will expand into their world as well. I do not know if death due to our sun expanding would be too quick for us to know it had come. I do not know if we will feel our skin dry and burn and crack before we die. I do not know anything but that I will do all I can to see my family survive. Even deal with those dishonorable shtako.